TimeLine Notebook

Harnessing Power The Beginning of Global Energetics

At
this point in our tour, we'd like you to think about the economy
of power and change.

Over
time new mechanisms become available to
humanity to provide more and more power.
This in turn leads to accelerating advancements,
mounting greater complexity in economic
systems, growing trade and commerce, and
ultimately pushing the limits of resource
use. Here is a place to start thinking about
the processes that today contribute to global
change.

Water wheels
may seem a simple technology that have little to do with today's
nuclear power or coal fired generation of electricity, but think
of this as a root that grows as the appetite for human-material ventures
that expand over time. Capacity to harness power may go hand-in-hand
with the perception of having greater ''needs.'' The greater the
population, the greater the perception, and the greater the use of
resources. Water wheels, in their day, met the need of that time.

The time line
will bear witness to the technological advancements both in harnessing
power sources and also in the utilization of power... all this drives
change, propels the generation of information, and speeds up the
pace of life, the pace of resource use, the pace of environmental
decline, and the perception that material wealth is somehow tied
to success in life. That is a material oriented goal which is temporal
and per person ends at some point — as the saying goes: ''you can't
take it with you!'' The legacy of prior use is left for the generations
to follow.

Also
note that the the time line goes to points
beyond the material realm itself. Yet within
the material realm, for the time being,
water turning a wheel and drive shaft is
part of an avenue leading to convergence — a process that picks up its pace
later along the time line. Again, here is
a place to think of changes that will come
in time. This is a transition you can think
of when seeing the simpler leading to the
more technological advancements yet to come.

Web (Internet): Occasionally
we find what appear as reliable, but formally unpublished, sources on the Internet. As such these entries remain to be fully confirmed. In many cases this information is found to agree with the remainder of the timeline and the published sources used here.

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